Curiosity, and the Triumph of the Noëtic PrincipleLyndon LaRouche was joined by LaRouchePAC Basement Team researchers Peter Martinson and Benjamin Deniston, for the Aug. 8 LPAC Weekly Report (http://larouchepac.com). Here is an edited transcript of their discussion.Lyndon LaRouche: Good morning. I think we'll just start right here with you [to Martinson].Peter Martinson: Okay. Well, this past week we had probably the most fantastic development in the Solar System with the landing of the Mars science laboratory. It's a pretty large rover which has landed on Mars, called Curiosity. But this is one of the most magnificent things that has happened in quite a while in our Solar System. It's an amazing rover: The observations it's going to make are absolutely fantastic. We have some ideas, but we don't know exactly what it's going to find. More of its importance resides in the mind of man, and what man is, because man is not a being of the senses. We have the physical stuff of our flesh and so forth; we have senses; we can look around and we can see things; we can feel things and so forth. We can develop new sense perceptions in order to sense morelike scales in order to weigh things, or telescopes, and things like that. But it is in none of those senses that the true stuff of man resides. Man is outside the senses and uses those senses in order to juxtapose them, to find what is really happening in the universe. But, what is generating those senses? Where are the processes that we don't see with our senses, that are causing those sense perceptions to happen? Now, the lander on Marsthe best way to look at it is that it's a miraculous sense organ ...

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Curiosity, and the Triumph of the Noëtic PrincipleTwo days after the stunning success of the NASA Curiosity rover's landing on Mars, Lyndon LaRouche, joined by two members of the Basement Team, for an LPAC Weekly Report dialogue, discussed some of the implications for our future on Earth and in the Solar System, including developing a Defense of Earth from meteors and comets. And, as always, LaRouche adds his unique insight, in this case, mankind's noëtic characteristic, which makes such things possible.

Economics

While Panic Grows,
Leading Germans Moot Glass-Steagall The European banking establishment would like to put off dealing with the euro mess till after the Summer holidays, but the crisis cannot be delayed. Meanwhile, in Germany, a high-level faction is coming out for Glass-Steagall.

International

Obama, Netanyahu Intensify Push for World War III Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tightly scripted deployment to Ankara to coordinate the Obama Adminsitration's war plans against Syria threatens to light a fuse on a wider Mideast war, that could trigger an all-out thermonuclear confrontation with Russia and China.

National

Will America Survive the Electoral Race to the Bottom?The United States needs a radical shift before the Democratic National Convention Sept. 3, which is now on course to renominate Obama as its Presidential candidate. That nomination, along with that of his putative GOP rival, would lock in this year's Presidential campaign as a 'race to the bottom,' Lyndon LaRouche said.

Science

The 'Secret of Fire':
Beyond Sense PerceptionsLyndon LaRouche follows his recent report, 'The Human Mind: Two Views,' and the July 25 LPAC Weekly Report (below), with this 'extended, summary, print version of the core of the most essential features of that topic,' ' 'for the record,' as if 'under a single roof.' '